Homeroom 1.0.57 Release Notes

Assessment Performance Aggregation by Service

The District and School Views in the Assessments Widget can now show student performance aggregates by service enrollment. Disaggregation to show student details is optionally available. This must be configured on a per district basis, so please contact us if you would like access to it.

Free & Reduced Lunch and Homeless Data

Our security system now allows for data related to student enrollment in Free & Reduced Lunch programs, and data related to students being categorized as Homeless, to be exposed in Homeroom. This highly sensitive data can be made available on a per role basis, so again please contact us if you would like access to this.

Student Attendance Filters

Smart Student Groups have a new filter group available related to attendance allowing groups to be created based on students' number of absenses. This is under the filter group "Behaviors." You may create groups of students with "at least", "exactly," or "less than" a number of abscences over a period of time.

Assessment Ordering and Grouping

Assessments are often now ordered by a new chronological ordinal. This organization will help with analysis. There are also many new types of system generated assessment sets (for example instead of just "8th Grade" there is now "8th Grade Math"). This too will help with analysis.

New Data Extract Type

"Student Group List Assessment Percentages" displays how two groups of students did on a single assessment. This is the first extract to take in multiple student groups, and more are to come. This can be used for TPEP purposes for closing the gap and for other student group comparison purposes.

Another first for this extract is to be able to click a performance level region in the chart and see a list of students who achieved that level. Also, you may export the chart as a PDF file. Soon, we will be able to profile the students in this list, and add them to a group.

Attendance Widget

We are overhauling the Student Attendance Widget. Once we have one week of real data, we will release it. Coming soon to a Student Spotlight page near you.

Data Extract Integration

Data Extracts created and saved in Homeroom can now be saved as evidence in Evaluations.

Customer Submitted Issues:

• The My Assessment Set Editor, after being closed, would sometimes not open back up
• Some of our new automatically generated assessment sets appeared to be duplicates
• Some Longitudinal Cohort charts were not displaying all of the expected assessments
• While searching to add assessments to a user defined set, if there were multiple pages of search results, not all assessments would display
• The Student Learning Plan Manager would not work if Accomodations had not been configured
• On the password reset page, if a username was entered with spaces at the end, it would not be recognized
• When selecting a Student Group, for some roles, after selecting the new school year, district-level groups were sometimes not listed
• When printing the assessment scores of a class, the teacher's name was not shown

Internally Discovered Issues:

• The alternate row color shading (zebra striping) would sometimes not reset after filtering
• Breakpoints can now be decimals
• The values of scored answers were not in the downloaded version of the Item Analysis Chart
• The entity-type filter in the Lookup Widget only worked for the first page of search results
• In the Risk Indicators Widget, the paging didn't work
• In the Risk Indicators Widget, the "Show Un-enrolled Students" button didn't work
• In the Student Learning Plan Widget, the Communications Date was not displaying
• Student Learning Plans can now be read-only
• In the Student Learning Plan Widget, there were no Commitments for some districts
• District Admins can now see aggregate free/reduced lunch data
• In Smart Student Groups, some open menus would not collapse after other menus were opened

Open Customer Submitted Issues

• A couple of Automated Logins need to be updated because the target sites have changed
• In the Print View of the Student Assessment Widget, a score's bar doesn't extend fully
• Acronyms in assessment names are sometimes not displayed in UPPERCASE
• In the Assessment Set View, if the Assessment Test Performance Level is "Met", the score is represented by an checkmark icon, instead of a color/number combination
• If the Assessments Widget is displaying a lot of data, in IE9 sometimes the page will keep scrolling up

Open Customer Submitted Enhancements

• Some new Automated Logins have been requested
• Allow for printing the list of students in a group
• Let Homeroom users define tests and upload scores directly to the assessment widget
• Update the Attendance Widget to show summaries
• Flag discipline incidents as Suspensions or Expulsions
• Improve the Student Name Range filter in Smart Students Groups to be more granular
• Create a Dashboard Widget that shows the User's Homeroom Sessions
• Let course grades and assessments be compared as a Data Extract
• Update the Guardian Contact Information Data Extract to allow for contact info to be excluded
• Allow for configurations made in the Widget, for example sorting and ordering, to be used in printouts
• Allow for long assessment names to be fully visible in the Assessment Set printout
• In Smart Student Groups, let all members of the Student Group Preview be added to the Student Queue with one click
• In Data Extracts, if a chart region has over 1,000 students, reformat how this number displays
• In the School View Tab of the Assessments Widget, if a Teacher is hidden from the view, allow this to be saved as a preference
• Allow for historical data to be shown in the Gradebook Viewer Widget on the Student Spotlight Page
• In the Assessments Widget Item Analysis by Learning Target chart, display the Learning Target Framework Code, and add a Learning Target Info Popover
• In the Item Analysis chart, freeze the header row and leader column
• In the Charts & Graphs Widget, make chart colors consistent from one year to the next
• In the Charts & Graphs Widget, for Assessment Test Annual Performance Level Percentages Chart, add an Info Popover
• Display all scores for all years a student took an assessment in the student assessment widget
• Allow users to edit communications entries in the Student Learning Plan Widget
• Update the Student Learning Plan Widget so that while one user is editing a plan, no other users can edit it
• Add messaging to help users who can login but do not have any roles assigned to them
• Let gradebook data be used to make data extracts
• Add some new extracts to recreate some charts from other systems
• Let Homeroom integrate with other information systems
• Show student restriction data, such as allegry info, in their profile
• In Smart Student Groups, add some refresh buttons
• In Smart Student Groups, add greater granularity to filters like absences, student name, discipline
• Let selections made in a widget be saved when switching to a full screen view
• Show the class grades of students in a selected group
• Allow Student Groups created by one User to be cloned by a second User